LTA KPOP 2 EP 12: Top 10 Rookies of 2017

I had this list written in my journal for awhile and it because I never wrote it down on a LTA KPOP episode. Therefore, I am doing it now. As I started this season, I was writing a whole bunch of list down and I look back and notice that I haven't wrote down my top rookies groups that debuted in 2017 or 2016. So this episode would be groups that debuted in 2017. This list hasn't change a lot from the original list but I would tell you why the groups are in their current ranking. 

1. Wanna One

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Wanna One is from the Produce 101 Season 2. The group consists of the final top eleven trainees at the end of the finale live show. The members are: Yoon Ji Sung, Ha Sung Woon, Hwang Min Hyun, Ong Seong Woo, Kim Jae Hwan, Kang Daniel, Park Ji Hoon, Park Woo Jin, Bae Jin Young, Lee Dae Hwi and Lai Guan Lin. The group officially disband in 2019 after their final concert Therefore, although their contract stated that they will disband at the end of December 2018.

I knew Wanna One was going to be a successful group while watching the produce season. I pretty sure everyone did too. They work hard and were recognized for it. They ranked number two on Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list for 2018 and was recognized for their brand recognition and marketing power. Every comeback was a success, even their debut was successful too. It was sad to see them disband, but we all saw this coming already. Yes, I would love to see them reunited in the coming years and continue supporting each of the members in their own career paths.

LTA KPOP 2 EP 11: Top 10 tvN Shows

Total Variety Network (tvN) is a nationwide general entertainment network owned by CJ E&M. It is available on cable, SkyLife, and IPTV platforms. It launch in October of 2006. 

In today list, I am telling you about my favorite variety shows that have came out from tvN. There was a lot to choose from but I pick out my favorite one to watch, the ones I kept up with every week and ones I really miss. Let's get started.

PRODUCE Series 'Final Line Up' Similarities and Coincidences

With the latest PRODUCE season finished, we already know who made it to the final line up but before that there was a lot of guessing who is going to make it to the final line up base on similarities and coincidences from the last three seasons. The internet hasn't stop buzzing about who's going to make it to the final line up and even after the final line up was announced there was a lot of things that broke those coincidences and similarities over the last three seasons. 

I have been a huge fan of the PRODUCE series since the very beginning and each seasons, it get harder to pick who's going to make it to the final line up. Honestly, I'm disappointed that some of my favorite trainees didn't make it but at the end of the season, I still love the final line up. There are some members that are predictable, if they don't leave the top debut rankings but since season two, it has become a crazy world of rankings and you don't know who is going to leave the debut ranking. 

In this blog, I am telling you some similarities and coincidences that other people have already name or listed on social media. I'll leave links below if you want to check those out, but I also found some of my own as I was doing my research. Let's go ahead and get started. 

LTA KPOP 2 EP 10: Top 10 JTBC Shows

Joongang Tongyang Broadcasting Company (JTBC) is a subscription network and broadcasting company. It was found in 1964 and ran for 16 years before merging with KBS. It wasn't until 2011 when JTBC started broadcasting under Channel number 15.

In today list, I am telling you about my favorite variety shows that have came out from JTBC. There was a lot to choose from but I pick out my favorite one to watch, the ones I kept up with every week and ones I really miss. Let's get started.

LTA KPOP 2 EP 9: Top 10 MBC Shows

Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is one of the leading South Korean television and radio network companies. Munhwa is Korean word for culture. Established on December 2, 1961, MBC is a Korean terrestrial broadcaster which has a nationwide network of 17 regional stations.

In today list, I am telling you about my favorite variety shows that have came out from MBC. There was a lot to choose from but I pick out my favorite one to watch, the ones I kept up with every week and ones I really miss. Let's get started.

PRODUCE X 101: Introducing X1

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X1 (X-One) is the four group created through the reality competition survival show Produce X 101 in the produce series. X1 consisted of the top ten trainees ranking in the last episode and finale with the eleventh members being the trainee with the most votes from the start of the competition till the finale. On July 19, 2019, the finale concert, last episode and live episode of Produce X 101, the line up to X1 have around been announce from Lee Dong Wook, the national representative. The lineup consisted of Han Seung Woo, Cho Seung Youn, Kim Woo Seok, Kim Yo Han, Lee Han Gyul, Cha Jun Ho, Son Dong Pyo, Kang Min Hee, Lee Eun Sang, Song Hyeong Jun and Nam Do Hyun.

The group's name, X1, was suggested by netizens through the official Produce X 101 website and chosen by CJ E&M, with the name taken from the show's title song 'X1-MA.' X1 means '11' in Roman numbers and also represents 10+1. The group will debut under Swing Entertainment and CJ E&M. Their contract will end five years after debut with a two and half year exclusive contract and another two and half non-exclusive contract, meaning that they members can return to co-promote with their original agencies after the first two and half years. 

PRODUCE X 101 EP 12

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PRODUCE X 101 EP 11

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PRODUCE X 101 EP 9 and 10

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Episode 9

After the second elimination, the 30 trainees move to Concept Evaluation performance and then Representative MC Lee Dong Wook announces that only six trainees are needed in each group and the trainees have to vote on who's going to stay or not. 

After the voting, the trainees head to their new teams. The teams head to the recording studio to meet with their Producers to record their song. After that, Representative MC Lee Dong Wook then reveals the X trainee. Before revealing, Lee Dong Wooks calls four candidates for the X trainee. When the X trainee was reveal, Lee Dong Wook gives each team 30 minutes in order to recruit the X trainee. If no one recruits him, he will have to choose a team randomly. Then, Team Monday to Sunday recruits the X trainee to their team and they practice in order to prepare for the stage. 

LTA KPOP 2 EP 8: Top 10 KBS Shows

KBS or Korean Broadcasting System is the national public broadcaster in South Korea. It was founded in 1927, and operates radio, television, and online services, being one of the biggest South Korea television networks. 

In today list, I am telling you about my favorite variety shows that have came out from KBS. There was a lot to choose from but I pick out my favorite one to watch, the ones I kept up with every week and ones I really miss. Let's get started.

LTA KPOP 2 EP 7: Top 10 SBS Shows

Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) is a national South Korean television and radio network company. The current logo was introduce on November 14, 2000; after its 10th anniversary celebrations. SBS has not only given us, the viewers, amazing and excellent dramas over the past years they have also given us variety show programs revolving around music, entertainment, society, culture and education.

In today list, I am telling you about my favorite variety shows that have came out from SBS. There was a lot to choose from but I pick out my favorite one to watch, the ones I kept up with every week and ones I really miss. Let's get started.

LTA KPOP 2 EP 6: Top 25 JTBC and tvN Dramas

Joongang Tongyang Broadcasting Company (JTBC) is a subscription network and broadcasting company. It was found in 1964 and ran for 16 years before merging with KBS. It wasn't until 2011 when JTBC started broadcasting under Channel number 15.

Total Variety Network (tvN) is a nationwide general entertainment network owned by CJ E&M. It is available on cable, SkyLife, and IPTV platforms. It launch in October of 2006. 

The reason why I put them together is because they don't have a lot of drama or TV series under each of them to get their own post but also because together I can put more together and that mean one less blog post too. Let's get started. 

PRODUCE X 101 EP 8

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Episode 8

Lee Dong Wook announces the beginning of the next evaluation prior to the second round of eliminations, meaning that all 60 trainees that have survived so far will continue to practice for the performances, but not all of them may get to perform. The evaluation is revealed to be a concept evaluation where viewers chose groups formations from a poll online. Lee Dong Wook introduces the six songs: Funky Retro Dance 'Pretty Girl' (written by KZ, Nthonious and The Private), Future Funk 'Super Special Girl' (written by Kwon Deun Guk), Mainstream Pop 'MOVE' (written by Zico), R&B Dance House 'Monday to Sunday' (written by Primeboi) and Future EDM Dance 'U Got It' (written by Noehl and Kiggen). The second round of eliminations takes place during the main studio.

PRODUCE X 101 EP 6 and 7

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Episode 6

Lee Dong Wook meets with the trainees once again to announce the next challenge. the trainees are tasked to perform live in groups based on positions they want to debut in: vocal, dance, rap or 'X'. 'X' is a new position that requires trainees to perform two of the three aforementioned positions simultaneously. There are four songs for vocals: Paul Kim's 'Me After You', Hwasa of MAMAMOO's  'Twit', Bolbbalgan4's 'To My Youth', and Wanna One's 'Day By Day', two songs for rap: Zico's 'Tell Me Yes or No', and Haon, Vinxen's 'Barcode', three songs for dance: Imagine Dragons's 'Believer', Bruno Mars's 'Finesse', and Jason Derulo's 'Swalla' and the two songs for 'X' are Charile Puth's 'Attention', for vocal and dance and SMTM4's 'Turtle Ship' for rap and dance. Each song has a member limit and would be picked by each trainee based on their ranks: Kim Yo Han who ranked 1st from the first elimination round would have the privilege of choosing the song he wants to perform first. The winner from each performance in vocal, dance and rap positions will receive 100 times their votes while the winner among all songs of each category will receive 100,000 votes. For the 'X' position, the winner from each performance will receive 200 times their votes while the overall winner will receive 200,000 votes. After each performance, they are ranked in their groups first and then overall in the category. Lee Dong Woo also announces that only the top 30 trainees will remain in the next round.

LTA KPOP 2 EP 5: Top 25 MBC Dramas

Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is one of the leading South Korean television and radio network companies. Munhwa is Korean word for culture. Established on December 2, 1961, MBC is a Korean terrestrial broadcaster which has a nationwide network of 17 regional stations.

Like the last two LTA KPOP post where I tell you my favorite dramas release by the broadcasting stations this is another one. Let's get started.

LTA KPOP 2 EP 4: Top 25 KBS Dramas

KBS or Korean Broadcasting System is the national public broadcaster in South Korea. It was founded in 1927, and operates radio, television, and online services, being one of the biggest South Korea television networks. 

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This list would list my top KBS dramas. This list would most likely not included dramas that is airing or aired in 2019, because I wrote and created this list at the beginning of 2019. 

Let's go ahead and get started then this time, I'm starting at number 1 and not number 25, like I usually do. 

PRODUCE X 101 EP 5

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The first elimination round begins with the remaining 99 contestants entering the main studio by company. In between announcements of each trainee's ranking, events leading up the elimination are shown, such as their dorm life and a hidden camera prank. A poll for 'Top Visual' was also conducted in which Jellyfish Entertainment's Kim Min Gyu was ranked 1st. During the ceremony, trainees rank 1 to 60 will move on to the next round while trainees from 61 to 99 will be eliminated from the competition. OUI Entertainment's Kim Yo Han takes 1st place in the first elimination round and Around Us Entertainment's Jung Jae Hoon finishes 60th place, narrowly escaping elimination. The episodes ends with the contestants comforting the eliminated trainees. 

PRODUCE X 101 EP 3 and 4

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Episode 3

The trainees film themselves individually performing X1-MA as their fellow grade members watch. Each video is watched by the mentors, who then reevaluate the trainees. After the re-evaluation, they are given their new grade and asked to move to their new rooms corresponding to their rank. Following the reorganization, they are told that instead of voting for the center position amongst themselves, the national producers voted. DSP Media's Song Dong Pyo, Brand New Music's Kim Si Hoon and Top Media's Kim Woo Seok are shown to be the top 3, with Song Dong Pyo ultimately winning the coveted center position. Not long after, they film the music video.

The trainees  begin their second mission - Group X Battle. Unlike the previous season where trainees competed against each other with the same song, the songs they are competing with a group;s debut song versus a hit song. The teams are: EXO's 'Mama' v. 'Love Shot', BTS's 'No More Dream' v. 'Blood Sweat and Tears', MONSTA X's 'Trespass' v. 'Dramarama', Seventeen's 'Adore U' v. 'Clap', NU'EST W's 'Deja Vu' v. 'Where U At', Wanna One's 'Energetic' v. 'Light', NCT U's 'The 7th Sense' v. 'Boss', and GOT7's 'Girls Girls Girls' v. 'Lullably'. All songs are performed live and each member is voted on by the auidence individually. The group with the highest score among the two wins and gains a benedit of 3000 bonus votes for each of its members, with the highest ranked member will gain a benefit of having his score multiplied by 10 in addition of the 3000 bonus votes. The group with the highest votes will later perform on M!Countdown. Rehearsals and performances of 'MAMA', 'Love Shot' and 'No More Dream' are shown this week. The episode ends with the current ranking with OUI Entertainment's Kim Yo Han maintaining his 1st place position following by Jellyfish Entertainment's Kim Min Gyu and Brand New Music's Lee Eun Sang.

PRODUCE X 101 EP 1 and 2

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Episode 1

The trainees from each company enter the studio, where seats are arranged numbered from 1 to 101. Each contestant chooses his preferred seat before being informed about several changes that will be applied in this season. New to this series is the X rank, the lowest rank where they are at the most vulnerable to be eliminated. Furthermore, the 11th member of the final group will be decided by the total number of votes they have accumulated throughout the whole season, meaning that the trainee who places 11th in the finale does not necessarily become the 11th member of the final group. Contestants then perform in a group or individually according to their company for evaluation. Some participants are asked to showcase their skill sin individual evaluation. Each trainee is judged on his potential and judges grade and assigned them into temporary groups for training ranking: A, B, C, D, and X (with A being the highest and X the lowest). At the end of the episode, the popularity ranking is shown with Jellyfish Entertainment's Kim Min Gyu taking first place followed by Starship Entertainment's Koo Jung Mo and OUI Entertainment's Kim Yo Han. 

PRODUCE X 101 Thoughts?

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So a long time ago when the very first season of PRODUCE 101 came out, I did a recap and review of each episodes along with listing my favorites trainees. I was going to continued that with the second season, but stop and when the third season came, I just didn't feel like it because I was already half way through the episodes when I remember about it, so now, that the newest and fourth season has started, I am going to do a recap of the episodes and list my favorite trainees along with my own personal thoughts and opinions. 

LTA KPOP 2 EP 3: Top 25 SBS Dramas

Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) is a national South Korean television and radio network company. The current logo (above) was introduce on November 14, 2000; after its 10th anniversary celebrations. SBS has not only given us, the viewers, amazing variety show programs but they have also given us amazing and excellent dramas over the past years. 

In this list, I am naming my top twenty-five dramas aired on SBS over the years. I look up all the dramas aired on SBS through their Wikipedia page and check off the ones I have watched. From that list, I pick my favorites and it was hard because there were a good amount of dramas I have seen from SBS. 

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So, let's go ahead and get started. 

At 25, I put Legend of the Blue Sea. 

Legend of the Blue Sea starred Jun Ji Hyun and Lee Min Ho. This drama aired from November 16, 2016 to January 25, 2017. This drama tells a love story of a con-artist and a mermaid who travels across the ocean to find him. 

When I heard about this drama, I was excited but then as I was watching it, it was alright. There wasn't much for me. Honestly, I love Lee Min Ho and Jun Ji Hyun but together, I don't think the are a great match at all. Half way through the drama I actually skip a lot but due to the popularity of this drama, I mean seriously, majority of mine friends were obsessed with it, I rank it at number twenty-five. 

LTA KPOP 2 EP 2: Top 50 Songs of 2018

2018 has officially ended and there has been some amazing debuts and comebacks songs. Its so hard to pick the top 50 songs of 2018, I had to go back and listen to every single songs I heard and know about and rank them from one to five stars. The ranking is base on how many times I have listen to the song since the release, would I go back to listening to the song, my personal opinions and thoughts, do I like or dislike the song, and how popular is the song. So lets go ahead and get started. 

50. GFRIEND - Time For The Moon Night

49. (G)I-dle - Latata

LTA KPOP 2 EP 1: Top 10 Rookies of 2018

Welcome to the very first episode of the second season of Let's Talk About KPOP. I decided to continue or start this series again. It's been over two years since the last episode therefore I wanted to new fresh start so I decided to start this year as the second season. Please continue to support me and let me know what you like to see. 

As the title stated, I will be picking my top ten rookies KPOP group of 2018. There was a good amount of rookie groups debuting in 2018 so some choices was easier than others. Overall, it was a very hard year to pick the top five groups that I enjoy listening to. 

Lets get started. At number 10, I have the GWSN. 

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GWSN (Gongwon Sonyeo) is a 7-member girl group under Kiwi Pop, that debuted on September 5, 2018 with the song 'Puzzle Moon.' The seven members are Miya, Seokyoung, Seoryoung, Anne, Minju, Soso, and Lena.